Stringstream for binary data

The new IOstream classes are templates, so overloading the insertion and extraction operators for your desired type at an appropriately low level should yield the desired results. For a more complete solution, simply derive a new class from std::streambuf (IIRC; Fruny told me he did something like this to create an OpenGLstream class).

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Original post by Oluseyi
The new IOstream classes are templates, so overloading the insertion and extraction operators for your desired type at an appropriately low level should yield the desired results. For a more complete solution, simply derive a new class from std::streambuf (IIRC; Fruny told me he did something like this to create an OpenGLstream class).

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I should have clarified more.

I want to be able to extract and insert basic types into a stream based on their binary representations. Operator << and >> are for textual extraction only, if you open a file stream in binary mode, you cannot use them, you have to use read() and write() member functions to read them in.

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I want to write the number 4 into a stream. If I used a normal stringstream it''d yield the ASCII value for ''4''.

What I''m wanting to do is write not the ASCII value, but the integer itself to the stream like this: 00 04 (high bits first here). I''d provide a manipulator that allows you to reverse this (network byte order).

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Original post by antareus
An example:
I want to write the number 4 into a stream. If I used a normal stringstream it''d yield the ASCII value for ''4''.

What I''m wanting to do is write not the ASCII value, but the integer itself to the stream like this: 00 04 (high bits first here). I''d provide a manipulator that allows you to reverse this (network byte order).

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But "00 04" is not binary. You''re probably talking about hexadecimal.

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You can convert the typed data to binary yourself. Otherwise you must use read and write.

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Original post by Oluseyi
You can convert the typed data to binary yourself. Otherwise you must use read and write.

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Yes. I have written a stream class that acts like it, I''m asking how to fit it into the iostream hierarchy so I can use << and >> with the basic types mostly.